I-4 / Selmon Expressway Connector (new road)

Project Description

Financial Project Number: 258415
Project Limits: from Interstate 4 to Selmon Expressway
Project Length: about 1 mile (main corridor)
Estimated Construction Cost: $400 million
Contractor: PCL/Archer Western, a Joint Venture
Start Date: March 1, 2010
Estimated Completion Date: Late 2013

About this Project
The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) is building a new north-south toll road, which will connect Interstate 4 with the Selmon Expressway west of 31st Street in Tampa. This elevated roadway will link these two major east-west corridors and significantly improve the movement of people and goods.

The new roadway will also provide exclusive truck lanes for direct access to the Port of Tampa and remove heavy truck traffic from local roads in Ybor City, one of only two National Historic Districts in Florida.

Other Project Benefits

Provides an additional hurricane evacuation route.

Provides increased mobility for emergency services first responders.

Design
This unique, complex project was designed by national engineering firms. Design challenges included limiting impacts to the City of Tampa's McKay Bay Park and Palmetto Beach, a community eligible for designation as an Historic District. The new roadway also had to be designed to cross a number of urban streets, State Road 60, and CSX railroad tracks, as well as fit interchanges into Interstate 4 and the Selmon Expressway.

The project will also include a state-of-the-art toll facility with an all-electronic toll collection system that will allow for traffic to maintain highway speeds and for maintenance of toll equipment without disrupting traffic. The electronic open road tolling will be done through SunPass and Toll-by-Plate tolling. Click here for more info on all electronic tolling and Toll-by-Plate

Project Partners
The I-4 / Selmon Expressway Connector Project partners are the Florida Department of Transportation - District Seven, Florida's Turnpike Enterprise, and the Tampa-Hillsborough County Expressway Authority.

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GRAPHICS & VIDEO

Presentation Board View of the Project
Click here to view the board

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"Drive-through" Video (through toll gantry)
Click here to view the animated video of driving through the toll gantry

Driving south animation tour
Click here to view a video that begins south of I-4 and ends at the Port of Tampa

Video of project design
Click here to view the video

I-4 / Selmon Expressway Connector Industry Forum
Please click here to get graphics, video, and other information from the May 27, 2009 meeting regarding this project.

Lane Closure Hours

Interstate 4:
Eastbound: 8:00 p.m. to 6:30 a.m.
Westbound: 8:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.

Selmon Expressway:
Day: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Night: 8 p.m. to 5 a.m.

State Road 60:
Day: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Night: 7 p.m. to 7 a.m.

21st and 22nd streets (SR 45):
Day: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Night: 7 p.m. to 7 a.m.

Side Streets:
Day: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Night: 7 p.m. to 7 a.m.